Former president Bill Clinton comes to Royal Oak today to hold a high-priced fundraiser that will pump money into Michigan Sen. Debbie Stabenow’s re-election campaign with less than a month to go until Election Day.

The event, which will be held at the South Main Street home of Michael “Chet” Chetcuti, carries a price tag of $1,000 for a basic ticket, $2,500 for an upper-tier seat. And those who have raised and bundled $10,000 for the fundraising party will gain entrance to a VIP cocktail reception where they will meet and have their photo taken with the ex-president.

The incumbent senator, a Lansing Democrat, said a crowd between 100 and 150 people is expected to attend.

Stabenow, who is already outspending by a wide margin her Republican opponent, former congressman Pete Hoekstra of Holland, has shifted her solicitations for money to assistance for her Election Day get-out-the-vote effort. While Hoekstra has made a $157,000 TV ad buy across the state, Stabenow has $4.1 million in advertising established over the final three weeks of the Senate campaign.

Stabenow has been seeking online donations of $5 to pay for campaign phone calls, door-knocking and canvassing. A contest among those contributors was won, coincidentally, by a Royal Oak woman, who was rewarded with a free ticket to the VIP reception with Clinton.

Chetcuti, host of the midafternoon event, has a resume that ranges from an appearance in a recent Stabenow campaign ad to the frontman for a surfabilly/punk band known as the Chet Offensive.